I'm also a huge FOSS nerd and it makes my personal AND professional life a lot easier, and I totally agree with you. If the problem is that the ruthless winner

I'm also a huge FOSS nerd and it makes my personal AND professional life a lot easier, and I totally agree with you. If the problem is that the ruthless winner-take-all nature of professional environments is destroying open source, then you need to fix both problems, not one of them. Trying to fix only one won't help.